Author: Mary Mae Miral

How Artificial Intelligence Is Changing Employee Background Checks Guidance issued by the FTC Bureau of Consumer Protection Director Andrew Smith in April 2020 highlights the current and potential impacts of artificial intelligence on hiring processes...

Covid-19 Workplace Impact: How the Coronavirus Pandemic Has Forced Women Out of the Workforce A year after the COVID-19 pandemic, which resulted in mass unemployment, has shown the existing inequalities within companies.  According to data from the...

Dozens of Utah Educators Hired Without Full Employee Background Checks The Utah State Board of Education has revealed that an employee’s data entry mistakes resulted in failure to properly perform pre-employment background check on potential...

Washington Supreme Court Drug Ruling Adds Uncertainty to Employee Background Checks Employers face ambiguity as Washington State allows the use of heroin, Meth, and other drugs with no criminal repercussions. Many wonder how this will affect drugs...

California Court Upholds Covid-19 Workplace Rule Requiring Coronavirus Testing & Sick Pay On Thursday, Judge Ethan Schulman, a San Francisco Superior Court judge, upheld the COVID-19 emergency workplace regulations for California, to reduce transmission...

COVID-19 Pushes Need For Cloud-Based HR Software HR leader Jennie Knowles, SHRM-CP and head of human resources at Sendoso, an online marketing and promotional campaigning company based in San Francisco, expects that the COVID-19 pandemic will continue...

New Jersey’s New Recreational Marijuana Laws For Employers New Jersey has signed into law the New Jersey Cannabis Regulatory, Enforcement Assistance, and Marketplace Modernization Act (CREAMMA). This law, among other things, prohibits employers...